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+title: 'The Manifesto of the PRKA'
+date: '2004-08-30T15:24:42-04:00'
+permalink: /the-manifesto-of-the-prka/
+tags:
+    - politics
+    - reading
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+Via [Unfogged](http://www.unfogged.com/archives/week_2004_08_29.html#002279), George Saunders’s [manifesto](http://www.slate.com/id/2105672/) of the PRKA, or the People Reluctant to Kill for an Abstraction:
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+> At precisely 9 in the morning, working with focus and stealth, our entire membership succeeded in simultaneously beheading no one. At 10, Phase II began, during which our entire membership did not force a single man to suck another man’s penis. Also, none of us blew himself/herself up in a crowded public place. No civilians were literally turned inside out via our powerful explosives. In addition, at 11, in Phase III, zero (0) planes were flown into buildings.
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+Read the whole thing. What the world needs, I think, is a little more reluctance.
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